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Capital Punishment: New Testament
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The New Testament does not have any specific teachings about capital punishment. However, the Old Testament ideas of punishment became secondary to Jesus' message of love and redemption. Both reward and punishment are seen as properly taking place in eternity, rather than in this life.
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It was at the Daily News that Dickens wrote his first five letters on Capital Punishment, along the lines of the proposal he had sent to Napier. The intellectual pedigree of the Edinburgh Review was still evident, in that these letters were among the best-researched and best-argued of all of Dickens’s non-fiction. As will be seen, they eventually turned out to be some of the most important.
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As European settlers migrated to the New World colonies from Jamestown in Virginia to Boston in Massachusetts, they brought the principles of English Common Law, including severe forms of corporal and capital punishments. Use of devices such as the stocks, the pillory, and the dunking stool could be found in virtually every community in pre-colonial Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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